If the Han army wants to pass through half of Hanzhong County and reach Beishan, it must be taken by surprise by Yancen, so it must be concealed from Gongsun Shu's ears and eyes scattered in Hanzhong.

A march of 30,000 men seems impossible to be unaware of the enemy's territory, but in fact it is not.

Hanzhong County is sparsely populated, and there are nine counties in the territory, namely Nanzheng, Chuyang, Chenggu, Xuzhong, Shangyong, Anyang, Xicheng, Xixian, and Fangling, of which Xicheng is the county government.

Of these nine counties, five are concentrated in the western part of Hanzhong, and the other four counties are scattered in the central and eastern parts of Hanzhong.

The route of the Han army was to enter from the eastern part of Hanzhong, go to the central part and then go north, take the meridian road, and finally arrive at Beishan.

It is entirely possible to avoid the local people, and even the eyes and ears of Gongsun Shu, so that the gods suddenly appear behind the Yancen tribe without realizing it.

Li Tong looked at Ma Wu, Wang Ba, and Hou Jin, and said, "We need Hanzhong guides, a large number of Hanzhong guides. ”

Hou Jin Zhengse said: "General, this matter is handed over to the last general!" ”

Li Tong nodded and said: "Although our goal is Yancen, we must also do what we should do, and tomorrow, let the soldiers go to measure the land and prepare for the upcoming Tuntian!" ”

"Yes!"

Everyone agreed in unison.

The Han army led by Li Tong, after arriving at Shidu Township in Nanyang, began to set up camp, and carried out land surveying and planning around Shedu Township, which really looked like they were preparing for Tuntian.

The mobilization of the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Han army naturally attracted the spies of Gongsun Shu, and the spies did not continue to pay attention to them when they saw that the Han army was indeed in Tuntian.

One is that this Han army has too few soldiers and horses, only 30,000 people, whether it is Tian Rong in Nanjun, Ren Manbu, or Shu Di, they do not pose much of a threat.

Second, the commander of this Han army is Li Tong, a brother who has never fought in a war after defecting to Luoyang, and only relies on the identity of a horse to become a guard captain and a former general.

Gongsun Shu's side naturally won't take these 30,000 Han troops in his eyes.

While the Han army was in Nanyang with great fanfare, Hou Jinyu secretly sent people to Hanzhong to recruit local guides.

In only about ten days, Hou Jin recruited more than 30 people, most of whom were hunters and walkers in Hanzhong, and they were very familiar with the terrain of Hanzhong, and even the unknown trails and mountain roads.

When Hou Jin recruited all the guides, Li Tong's side was also prepared accordingly.

He divided the soldiers under his command into a group of elites, and then disguised these elites into several caravans, with more than 100 people in scale and dozens of people in small scale.

The purpose of pretending to be a caravan is to get them ahead of their own army, and to put it bluntly, to use them as a stepping stone.

Li Tong dispersed the guides Hou Jin had found, and arranged two or three people in each caravan.

On that day, in the evening, the Han army led by Li Tong quietly left the Han army camp and went straight to Wudang Mountain in the west.

Li Tong did not take all the soldiers away, and deliberately left a few thousand people in the camp.

If the camp is empty overnight, and the spies of Gongsun Shu are not allowed to find out, once it is discovered, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of Gongsun Shu's side.

Li Tong is a delicate person, he does things, and all the details will be taken into account, which can be described as leaky.

Wudang Mountain is the boundary mountain between Nanyang and Hanzhong County, Wudang Mountain is Nanyang County to the east and Hanzhong County to the west, a long mountain range separates the two counties.

When traveling through Wudang Mountain, the guide Hou Jin found worked, and instead of taking the flat road through the mountain, the Han army took a rugged and hidden path, successfully avoiding the fortresses and strongholds set up by Gongsun Shujun in Wudang Mountain.

To make a long story short, the team marched for a night, and at dawn the next day, Li Tong ordered the soldiers to rest in the mountains and forests, and were not allowed to make fires to make food, and only ate the rations they carried with them.

There was nothing to say during the day, and at night, the Han army continued to march, out of the Wudang Mountain boundary, and into Hanzhong County.

Compared with Nanyang, the population of Hanzhong is much smaller, and the population of the county is mainly concentrated in the central and western regions, and the eastern side is really inhabited.

The Han army led by Li Tong rested during the day and marched at night, walking like this, although hidden, it was also very easy to get lost.

At this time, Li Tong asked Hou Jin to recruit the guides to play an effective role, even at night when visibility was extremely low, they could easily lead the Han army and follow the original route.

After eight days of walking in Hanzhong County, the Han army finally approached Xicheng, the county capital of Hanzhong.

It wasn't until they arrived here that the population began to flourish.

But for Li Tong and other Han troops, the march became more difficult, and even at night, they had to avoid densely populated villages and towns, and sometimes they had to go an extra mile or twenty in a detour.

The hard work is a little harder, but this Han army, which went deep into Hanzhong, really managed to be silent, like a ghost.

When I arrived near Xicheng, I was immediately connected to the Meridian Road.

During the day, the Han army still rested in a hidden place, and at night, the Han army began to officially enter the Meridian Road.

This section of the road near Xicheng is quite easy to walk.

When the Han army walked the meridian road, it was still day and night, at first, it was no problem to go this way, but as they marched all the way north, the road became more and more difficult to walk, and it became narrower and narrower.

They did not dare to light torches when marching at night, and the soldiers were one foot deep and one foot shallow, and they completely followed their comrades in front of them.

Some people walked and walked, and they disappeared inexplicably, and the people behind them disappeared with them, not evaporating from the world, but falling down the mountain road from the air.

When the Han army reached the Wenshui River, it was no longer possible to march at night, and the road here could not be called a road, it was a plank road paved by manpower.

The plank road is set on the cliff, with the mountain wall on one side and the abyss on the other, and the bottom of the abyss is the turbulent Wenshui River.

The width of the plank road is just over one meter, and the carriage can't go up at all.

Hearing the return of the soldiers in front, Li Tong took Ma Wu, Wang Ba, and Hou Jin to the front of the plank road, and when he looked at it, everyone gasped.

Wang Ba frowned and whispered: "This plank road is too narrow, and our army's heavy vehicles can't go up at all!" ”

The carriage is almost two meters wide, and how can it be done to walk on such a narrow plank road, with two wheels hanging outside?

Ma Wu also deliberately walked to the plank road and stomped his feet hard, and the wooden planks below made a creaking sound.

He couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Dimension, our army's baggage can't get on the plank road at all!" ”

This wooden plank road, people are dangerous to walk, at any time may step on the wooden plank, not to mention that the carriage transporting the baggage can not come up, even if it can come up, do not dare to let the carriage walk on it! Li Tong frowned, pondered for a moment, and immediately said: "Pass the order, all the baggage, take away what can be taken away, and what can't be taken away, discard it on the spot and throw it into the Wenshui River!" ”

"General—" The faces of all the generals present changed at the same time.

Throwing away all the baggage, isn't it too risky?

Li Tong said meaningfully: "We have come here, and our army has no way back, either go down this plank road, or be trapped in Hanzhong!" ”

As he spoke, he looked around at the people around him and asked word by word, "Do you want to continue with me, or do you want to risk going back the way you came?" ”

Ma Wudi lowered his head, thought about it carefully, slapped his face vigorously, and said: "The former general has an order, take away the baggage that is convenient to take away, and the baggage that is inconvenient to take away, and discard it on the spot, haven't you heard?" ”

In the army, Li Tong's reputation is not high, but Ma Wu's reputation is extremely high, when it comes to the martial plague god Ma Wu, whether it is the Han army or the enemy army, how can anyone not hear of it?

Ma Wu spoke, and the soldiers of the Han army below did not dare to hesitate anymore and moved one after another.

The horses pulling the carts were untied and some heavy things were placed on the horses' backs, and as for the large carriages, there were some large baggage, and people retreated from the cliffs to see them fall into the Wenshui River.

For a while, I saw cars falling off the cliff one after another, and the sound of falling water was endless.

The baggage that should be discarded was discarded, and Li Tong ordered the whole army to go on the plank road and continue to move forward.

At the front was still the caravan.

Today, the caravan responsible for exploring the road in front of the caravan has a total of fifty or sixty people, led by a leader who is a captain in the Han army, named He Gui.

In the caravan, there were more than thirty horses, each carrying two large boxes on their backs.

A group of them walked cautiously along the plank road, and people held the reins of the horses tightly, for fear that the horses would be frightened on the plank road.

It doesn't matter if the horse falls on its own, for fear of being frightened and knocking people down.

There was nothing to say all the way, and when it was evening and day, He Gui's caravan came to a rest area in the middle of the wooden plank road.

This is the connection of the two plank roads, there is a large flat land with a width of 100 zhang, which is called the Meridian Terrace, and the Meridian Terrace is also one of the important rest areas on the Meridian Road.

After He Gui and the others arrived at the meridian platform, a group of soldiers immediately came over.

Seeing this, the people below were shocked, looked at each other, and did not find that their own feet were exposed.

He Gui gave his subordinates a look, signaling them not to panic and wait and see.

A cadre of Shu soldiers wearing the uniforms of Gongsun Shujun came to them.

After looking at them, one of the team leaders stretched out his hand and asked, "Is there a household version?" ”

The household version of the Han Dynasty is the household registration, which is like an ID card, which is a proof of identity.

However, the household version is much more detailed than the ID card, which records the name of the person's patriarch, parents, siblings, wife and children, where the family lives, what work he does, what title he has, and even the person's height, body type, and skin color.

He Gui was only stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile on his face: "This big brother, the little ones don't have a household version!" ”

Because the household version is very detailed, the volume of the household version is also very large, and no one will carry the household version with them all day long.

When the team leader heard this, he immediately sank his face and said, "Didn't bring the household version?

So how do I know who you are?

Is it a fine work from Luoyang? ”

Hearing this, the faces of many people in the caravan changed.

He Gui turned his back to everyone and hooked his fingers behind them, signaling them to be ready.

He untied the money bag on his waist, handed it to the team leader, and said: "This big brother, the little ones are doing small business, and it is not easy to go south and north, and I hope this big brother can make it convenient!" ”

The team leader took the money bag handed over by He Gui and clicked it in his hand, feeling quite heavy, but the things inside didn't look like coins.

He snorted at He Gui and said, "For the sake of you being so clever, I can open the net." ”

As he spoke, he opened the seal of the money bag and poured it outward, and with a pop, a stone lump fell into his palm.

Seeing this, the team leader was furious and shouted, "Bold! Dare to play Lao Tzu......" Before he finished speaking, He Gui's hand behind his back had already pulled out the dagger from his back waist, and went out from the bottom up, and he heard a pop, and the edge of the dagger pierced into the opponent's jaw, leaving only the knife handle exposed.